Sam McCann said he was “thankful” for his time in jail because he was coming to understand how some of the votes he took during his eight years in the General Assembly translated to real-world policy that contributed to his fellow detainees’ involvement with the criminal justice system. “I’d trust these men more than some of my colleagues in Illinois government,” McCann said of his fellow detainees.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.